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Subject: [Edbrowse-dev] input text area
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When an input field in a form is a text area it looks like <buffer 4>
I wanted to script something, fill out a form and submit, but the =
script can't know ahead of time which buffer is selected.
And it can't really scrape buffer 4 off the page and switch to that =
session.
A new command of some kind is needed.

I thought about this.

i<file

Read the contents of a file into the text buffer.
edbrowse would determine which edbrowse session and put the text there.
We already have this command, but only for text fields, read in the =
first line of a file into that input field.
So this would not be a new command but a new way to apply it for text =
areas.
But it's not general, and not as easy to do as the next one.

i@

Switch to the buffer indicated by this text area.
>>From there you could read in your file, and do more, maybe edit it in =
some way. Then switch back to session 1.
But then again, what if you weren't in session 1.
Does the script use i@ again to toggle back to the input form?
So this is less intuitive, less obvious, but more general and more =
flexible.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I need either of these.
It's been 15 years and this is the first time I've run into this =
situation,
and even if I had these features, I find I can't execute my scripts for =
other reasons related to the website.
So it wouldn't help much.
This is just the thought for the day.

Karl Dahlke

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